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16.9.12

Court Upholds Governor Akpabio’s Election

THE Federal High Court, Abuja Division, yesterday put a
judicial seal on the gubernatorial victory of Chief Godswill Akpabio as it
declared him the duly elected Governor of Akwa Ibom State.

In his judgment in a suit brought by a
gubernatorial aspirant in Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Frank Okon claiming he was
unlawfully excluded from the primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on
January 15 last year in order to pave way for Akpabio’s emergence as the
party’s standard bearer to the governorship election, Justice Abdul Kafarati
held that the Court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the matter.In his ruling, Justice Kafarati held that since
by his own admission, the Plaintiff (Okon) did not participate in the
governorship primary, he therefore lacked the locus standi to challenge the
said primary, citing an earlier judgment delivered by the Supreme Court to
declare that only candidates who participate in an election can complain about
the conduct of the primary